Last month, a group of Republican
lawmakers opposed to the measure launched a ballot initiative to
repeal the law. Opponents have dubbed the legislation the “Bathroom
Bill” and its repeal campaign includes imagery of a stick-figure
man climbing over a bathroom stall to reach a stick-figure woman.

Delegate Neil C. Parrott said repeal
was needed because the law “opens it up to predators … who will
take advantage and go into the opposite-sex bathroom.”

However, a last-minute amendment to the
bill added to counter such claims defines gender identity as being
“sincerely held as part of the person's core identity.”